Town of Tobarra in Albacete, Spain, will stay on winter time this weekend. The municipality cited an old tradition, the tamborada, to explain its exemption.
The celebration which began on Holy Wednesday (March 27) must last 104 hours, until midnight on Easter Sunday. There would only be 103 hours of festivities if we switched to daylight saving time. This shortening would be an “alteration of one of our greatest signs of cultural identity,” said the mayor.